The Tree of Hope
In a small village on the edge of a vast, harsh desert lived a little girl, Khadra, and her mother.
Cyril-Cul
Listening to Children, Listening to Trees
How can outdoor spaces with trees underpin early childhood practice and support wellbeing, play, communication, learning and development for young children?
The Enchanted Tree Project
Schools resource The Project TThe co-production of this story is underpinned by the commitment to attending to children’s voices and imaginations in order to create worlds that speak to their fantasies. Through a series of workshops with 90 Year 4…
Voices of the Future @ WILD at Manchester Museums.
Voices of the Future – Collaborating with children and young people to re-imagine treescapes Background to the project: Harm to our treescapes (and its negative impacts on animal and plant life & environmental quality) will deeply affect young people. Planning…
Learning about trees as researchers
To explore the idea of ‘research’ and who the ‘researchers’ are & ethics of doing research with humans and non-humans
Listening to what knowledge children have about trees
To explore what children know about trees and identify where this knowledge comes from.
Seminar Series 2024
Waterways and learning: A series of pedagogical tensions for pedagogy Abstract: As part of a wider pilot project investigating water in, by and for early childhood education curriculum (ECE) across Aotearoa, NZ, Norway and Tanzania, this seminar explores the omnipresence…
Seminar Series 2023
Living trees grow, branch and sprout from within the midst of their arborescence: can we say the same of human lives Abstract: ‘Every individual organism’, wrote the philosopher Henri Bergson, ‘even that of a man, is merely a bud that…
Seminar series 2022
Feminist cultural practice Arts-led/based pedagogy & research programme Artist-Scholar-Activist Abstract: Community practice requires you be physically, emotionally, and intellectually present with the people you want to work with. No social or neighbourhood context is the same; people’s motivations and barriers are…